Lawrence E. Johnson

A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics

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Produktbeschreibung

Approaches bioethics on the basis of a conception of life and what is needed for the affirmation of its quality in the most encompassing sense. Johnson applies this conception to discussions of controversial issues in bioethics including euthanasia, abortion, cloning and genetic engineering. His emphasis is not on providing definitive solutions to all bioethical issues but on developing an approach to coping with them that can also help us deal with new issues as they emerge. The foundation of this discussion is an extensive examination of the nature of the self and its good and of various approaches to ethics. His bioethic is integrally related to his well-known work on environmental philosophy. The book also applies these principles on an individual level, offering a user-friendly discussion of how to deal with ethical slippery slopes and how and where to draw the line when dealing with difficult questions of bioethics. Applies a discussion of the nature of human life to bioethics, examining how to approach bioethical issues. A good bioethic affirms the value of life and seeks to improve its quality. Lawrence E. Johnson applies this definition to discussions of controversial bioethical issues including euthanasia, abortion, cloning and genetic engineering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780521154208
• ISBN-10: 0521154200
• Artikelnr.: 31891244

Autorenporträt

Lawrence E. Johnson is an affiliate research fellow in the humanities at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He has also taught at West Virginia University and Flinders University. His articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including International Logic Review, the Review of Metaphysics, Environmental Ethics, the Monash Bioethics Review and the Journal of Natural History, and he has also contributed to several literary journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Backgrounds: 2. Some background: self and reason; 3. Some background: approaches to ethics; 4. Some background: our good; 5. Elusive lines, slippery slopes, and moral principles; Part II. Life, Death, and Bioethics: 6. Being alive; 7. Being healthy; 8. Health and virtue; 9. Death and life; 10. Drawing lines with death; 11. Double effect: euthanasia, and proportionality; 12. Abortion; 13. The gene I: the mystique; 14. The gene II: manipulation; 15. Ethics and biomedical research; 16. Bioethics seen in an eastern light; 17. Toward a wider view.

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Introduction
Part I. Backgrounds: 2. Some background: self and reason
3. Some background: approaches to ethics
4. Some background: our good
5. Elusive lines, slippery slopes, and moral principles
Part II. Life, Death, and Bioethics: 6. Being alive
7. Being healthy
8. Health and virtue
9. Death and life
10. Drawing lines with death
11. Double effect: euthanasia, and proportionality
12. Abortion
13. The gene I: the mystique
14. The gene II: manipulation
15. Ethics and biomedical research
16. Bioethics seen in an eastern light
17. Toward a wider view.

Rezensionen

'By conceptualizing life as a process rather than a substance, and by identifying selves as life-processes, Johnson provides us with an innovative approach to the perennial question of how we ought to live our lives. Our good is our health, and our health is an activity whose trajectory changes over the course of our lives. The effects of this sensible thesis ramify throughout a host of urgent contemporary moral issues. I strongly recommend Johnson's accessible work.' Mark H. Bernstein, Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics, Purdue University